legallyblindobservations:

The World’s Quietest Room

Scientists at Minneapolis’ Orfield Labs created their own soundless room, an anechoic chamber. Their studies have found that when putting subjects within the chamber, they begin to hallucinate within 30 minutes. 

With an average quiet room having a sound level of 30 decibels, the anechoic chamber’s sound level is -9 decibels. The ceiling, floor, and walls of the chamber absorb sound rather than have it bounce off as normal objects do. The chamber is so quiet that the subjectscan even hear their own organs functioning.

Although extremely interesting, the experience is rather unpleasant. Not one subject has spent more than 45 minutes in the chamber alone.

Leaving a person to only their thoughts, the chamber could drive them insane.

fuckyeahbradtollman:

itscolossal:

This is what happens when you run water through a 24hz sine wave.

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

volts:

lifesgoingoutofstyle:

well, now i have something to tell all the people that ask what i’m going to do with my ears when i get old.

Our generation already has the stretched ear lobes. We listen to music way to damn loud anyways. 

This is a neat idea!

(Source: guttur)